Sheet layout vs card number
Fuzz
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I know that for some sets like 75T BB and 63T FB, border color helps dictate the layout of a the cards on the sheet. But on white bordered cards, or any consistent solid color, is there any rhyme or reason to the way the numbers are spread out all over the sheet?
Wanted: Bell Brands FB and BB, Chiefs regionals especially those ugly milk cards, Coke caps, Topps and Fleer inserts and test issues from the 60's. 1981 FB Rack pack w/ Jan Stenerud on top.
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Where are all those folks that worked at Topps, Fleer and Bowman in the 1950's and 1960's ?
Do they realize that we would devour their every word as to how sheets were laid out and cut,
how photos were taken, which players were chosen for inclusion, how each issue was designed,
how many of each series was produced, how much was destroyed, what were the production problems ...
Just the tip of the ice berg of the stuff we'd like to know.
"How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
About 12 years ago, I saw a 1968 uncut sheet with Ryan on the lower left corner. There were three black dashed marks on the edge where the cutting blade was supposed to start. If the one running the cutting machine had a brain, he'd have picked the middle mark. Since most Ryans are o/c, I deduced that he picked the first or third and therefore, lacked sufficient gray matter.
Either that or he could see grading and The Registry in the future and wanted to torture us.
I've heard that production numbers are more closely guarded than the formula to Coca-Cola, but sheet placement and positioning should not be a national secret.